Nate Love, better known as” Deadwood Dick,” was born a slave in Tennessee. When he got his freedom from chattel slavery where he was chattel property, not a person, Nate went to Texas and hired out his services to a ranch on the Palo Duro River in the Texas Panhandle. Nate learned to speak Spanish in Arizona. In 1876, Nate’s outfit made a cattle drive to the Dakota Territory, where Nate won the title for rope throwing tying bridles saddling mustangs and the name “Deadwood Dick.”

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